A young war correspondent wrote these letters in the weeks after Lincoln was shot, covering the murder at Ford’s Theatre, the funeral in Washington, Booth’s life and character, his flight and death, the conspiracy behind him and the detectives’ own stories. Townsend meant them to be read later as the Waterloo papers were, as the record of the moment.
Raw, immediate journalism on the assassination, essential for anyone studying April 1865. Download the free EPUB.